Ecosyste.ms: Awesome
An open API service indexing awesome lists of open source software.
https://github.com/r-lib/systemfonts
System Native Font Handling in R
https://github.com/r-lib/systemfonts
fonts rstats
Last synced: 4 days ago
JSON representation
System Native Font Handling in R
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/r-lib/systemfonts
- Owner: r-lib
- License: other
- Created: 2019-06-04T08:45:46.000Z (over 5 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2024-06-13T12:02:04.000Z (5 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-10-26T23:11:34.169Z (18 days ago)
- Topics: fonts, rstats
- Language: C++
- Homepage: https://systemfonts.r-lib.org
- Size: 5.07 MB
- Stars: 94
- Watchers: 6
- Forks: 17
- Open Issues: 10
-
Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.Rmd
- License: LICENSE
- Code of conduct: CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
Awesome Lists containing this project
README
---
output: github_document
---
```{r, include = FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(
collapse = TRUE,
comment = "#>",
fig.path = "man/figures/README-",
out.width = "100%"
)
```
# systemfonts
[](https://app.codecov.io/gh/r-lib/systemfonts?branch=master)
[](https://cran.r-project.org/package=systemfonts)
[](https://lifecycle.r-lib.org/articles/stages.html)
[](https://github.com/r-lib/systemfonts/actions)
systemfonts is a package that locates installed fonts. It uses the system-native libraries on Mac (CoreText) and Linux (FontConfig), and uses Freetype to parse the fonts in the registry on Windows.
## Installation
systemfonts is available from CRAN using `install.packages('systemfonts')`. It
is however still under development and you can install the development version
using devtools.
```{r, eval=FALSE}
# install.packages('devtools')
devtools::install_github('r-lib/systemfonts')
```
## Examples
The main use of this package is to locate font files based on family and style:
```{r}
library(systemfonts)
match_fonts('Avenir', italic = TRUE)
```
This function returns the path to the file holding the font, as well as the
0-based index of the font in the file.
It is also possible to get a data.frame of all available fonts:
```{r, include=FALSE}
library(tibble)
```
```{r}
system_fonts()
```
Further, you can query additional information about fonts and specific glyphs,
if that is of interest using the `font_info()` and `glyph_info()` functions.
## C API
While getting this information in R is nice, the intended use is mostly through
compiled code so that graphic devices can easily locate relevant font files etc.
In order to use functions from systemfonts in C(++) code your package should
list systemfonts in the `LinkingTo` field in the `DESCRIPTION` file. Once this
is done you can now `#include ` in your code and use the provided
functions. Look into the
[`inst/include/systemfonts.h`](https://github.com/r-lib/systemfonts/blob/master/inst/include/systemfonts.h)
file to familiarise yourself with the C API.
## System Defaults
systemfonts will always try to find a font for you, even if none exist with the
given family name or style. How it resolves this is system specific and should
not be relied on, but it can be expected that a valid font file is always
returned no matter the input.
A few special aliases exist that behaves predictably but system dependent:
- `""` and `"sans"` return *Helvetica* on Mac, *Arial* on Windows, and the
default sans-serif font on Linux (*DejaVu Sans* on Ubuntu)
- `"serif"` return *Times* on Mac, *Times New Roman* on Windows, and the
default serif font on Linux (*DejaVu Serif* on Ubuntu)
- `"mono"` return *Courier* on Mac, *Courier New* on Windows, and the
default mono font on Linux (*DejaVu Mono* on Ubuntu)
- `"emoji"` return *Apple Color Emoji* on Mac, *Segoe UI Emoji* on Windows, and the
default emoji font on Linux (*Noto Color* on Ubuntu)
## Code of Conduct
Please note that the 'systemfonts' project is released with a
[Contributor Code of Conduct](https://github.com/r-lib/systemfonts/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md).
By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.